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The Portland daily press., 1887-03-18
PYrHIAN ENTERTAINAIENr.

Pierce and Burrage.
PYTHIAN ENTERTAINMENT
Rocky Hill Lodge, No. 81, X. of p, gave
their fifth entertainment at Lewis Hall,
Woodford's, last evening The following
excellent programme was rendered:
Oyerture-Vale of Love. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Pleasant Hill Quartette.
Duet-Holv Mother, Guide His FOotsteps.
Misses Katie Kicker and Florence knight.
Mr.. A. Howard Buxton
Air yaria, for violin. Dancia
ooio-Laodie ..Pineuti
Miss Florence Knight.
Trio, for piano-LeS TrOis Amateurs Czerny
Mrs. Merrill, Misses Eta and Florence Knight
oeleetlon-Callph OF Bagdad. .BOieldieu
Orchestra.
Duet-When Little Farm We Keep.
Mrs. Knight and Mr. Buxton.
OVio-oSieStOu'. :: ..................
Miss Katie Kicker.
Duet for yiolins-Petites symphony. -. Dancla
Miss Florence Leach and Katie Patrick.
Solo-Appear, Love, at Thy Window. 49,. Gregh
Mrs. Knight.
Solo, for violIn-0ld Folks at Home Stobbe
Miss Florence Knight.
Quartette-Row Boatman, Row. Ceibel
Mrs. Knight, Miss Knight Mr. Buxton and
Mr.. Merrill
Selection-O, Fair Dovel o. Fond Dove.....
Schlepegrell
The Portland daily press., 1887-03-18
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
sr. p Arn1oK,s nAY coNcERr.

ST. pATRrctx,s DAY CONCERT
M ~, a MIN : - 1900, a,,d 90 ~
Kavanagh and 81. Dominic's schools, gave
fine concert in honor of st. Patrick's Dav. at
Civ Hail last a,arirg n a crowded and on.
AaoV o'onAne, ~ sN,,-...- - =,
tnusiastlc audience. Inc following was the
nrooran,,oo
Save.aiuiiio' c.,u,,,,o.,. o..,..-.-
1electlon uriinn'ei pDiIenestIa
Aeseno Oh the Bells i'iiquetle
co Chorus OF Schools c,o,,,o,
come Back to Erin. - 'Olaripel
Kayanagh School. e,,
wv mo "ateIs hnway;;o;s School
Auntle Dimple's Visit. ,..............
On the Morrt., havanagn ocnooi, q. F Root
Academy.
ORCHESTRA.
The Mill Wheel; !. ;..;s,;.i,:..........-''
solo-Annles and pears faT s
st. Dominic's School
--i'' D'"'e ''''''',x Academy. manly
Tambourine Drill .......;...;.........'....
The uar, ,hat NAY nasa 1hseeng 1. Tsra,s Hall
'D' 81 Dominic ! School.
oncursrpA
isniii W ol' rat ras;,. ~ Schools
The Buple Horn oioi 10 u $500.
Comic Duet-The Gossipers.
Academy.
The Rehearsal. ..................,........
ST. Dominic's school,
The Land Of Swallows .....................Ku cken
chorus Oh SCHOOLS.
opctrrsTpA
oS
come where the wild flowers ploom. white
o,sr sn,,,,na uo hdavanagh Scnooi c,so
Oer Smilng MEADOWS. ,..............-.... ...Glne
Tho rr,ss ,nr,sten,a Ac 9, SlELororv
Inc irish Cnristening az u, ilpPerary -....-...-'.
sonn :, +na url kayanagh school. wm,a
song OF the hunters. .;.:.:.,..;...;. Williams
orr Matthew's ST. Vt; Dominic's School, ,,,,.ua
our Natlons song Milard
Chorus OF Schools.
ORCHESTRA.
...-,, ,.~. -
a fhHAot4N" en- HHhN Ai1NslhNI'
The piano forte pupils of Miss Haskell and
tba ,,;oIin or,,;ls 90 Nr;ss Cnood;, .., .
sio fiVAlh puPho VI Mlss NoOuWin gave q
very entertaining recital last evening at the
ras;danca Of Mr. G N p,r,on,. n. 900
leoiuonoo VI ni' o. " huihery, NO. ooO
DdQIOILn SLIeeL. ne performers were
mostly young oirls and hovs ard .ho ,,,.,,,,o,.
The Portland daily press., 1887-03-18
In California.

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TOHN MAC MULLEN's SCHOOL in West
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s SsS sssss:. 81 cea q
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-24
HISTORY OF FLORIDA.
Health Resort Discovered Many Years
Ago by Mr.. Ponce de Leon.

A Health Resort Discovered Many Years
Ago by Mr.. Ponce de Leon.
Florida has been a health resort ever
since it was discovered by Ponce de
Leon in 1912. In fact that celebrated
discoverer went there for health HIM
self. He was afflicted with disorder
(almost always fataD called old age,
which is liable to attack man who has
been careless during his youth, some
where between the ages of fifty and
one hundred. There is no absolute
remedy for it even when treated in its
earliest stages, Most men neglect it
until it becomes firmly seated, and then
it is too late. 1t may be mitigated by
soothing treatment, but there is no
case recorded in medical works where
it has ever been thoroughly eradicated.
Ponce had led fast life, and when
he found age creeping on with its at
tendant intirmities he looked about for
means of recuperation. There had
been a mystic legend floating around
Europe concerning fountain of youth
somewhere in the New World, wherein
it was only necessary for an old man
to kathe to be made as good as new.
He would emerge as frisky as he ever
was in the world, his bald head COW
cred with luxurious wig and his
mouth prc-empted by double set of
false teeth of rubber. made while you
wait. Ponce set sail at once and landed
in Florida April 5, 1912, only twenty
years after the discovery of America.
AS soon as he arrived he was be-
sieged by the natives to buy an orange
grove. They said oranges could be
raised there with or without derrick.
yielding an enormous profit. Failing
in that he could keep winter boarders
from the North. But he turned II deaf
ear to their propositions and struck out
boldly in search of the tabled fountain.
1t must have been melancholy
thing to see that infatuated old man
wandering among savage everglades,
now stumbling over knobs and again
on Seminoles, in his fruitless quest. He
heard of fountain one day, but after
weeks of painful travel he found it was
only disabled soda fountain left be-
hind by picnic party. Finally, de-
spairing of becoming young again by
the hydropathic system he wisely set
tied down at Jacksonville and opened n
hotel for invalids, where he accumu-
lated handsome incompetency before
he died. -IeGds SiftinQs.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-24
THE DAY SHE DIED.

All as she left it within her room;
Her sootstool here where she used it last;
Her chair Drawn near to the plants in bloom
The time of flowers will soon be past.
Here is her worll-box, and white as milk
Her velvet cushion lies by its side:
And Il needle threaded with rose-hued silk
Just Us she left it the day she died.
On che sofa there is the dress she wore,
Dainty the sheer soft muslin thing
Ut suited her tender face OF yore
Because of its tints like the buds of spring.
a crumpled glove on her dressing case,
The print Of fingers within it yet,
And about it lingering still trace
OF violet vague and mlgnonette.
a riohpE dropped on the carpet near
by uer own soft fingers its knot was tied;
NO one has dared to enter here
Since the sudden, sorrowful day she died.
There on the table her open book,
And the blot Of tear that seems scarcely
dried;
The story, perhaps, has a sadder look,
Because she readit the day she died.
There her drawing but half complete:
And open yonder the song she tried;
IN the Other Land will she sing it as sweet
As she sung it here on the day she diedS
And here, ah me! on her writing case,
Her open ink and her paper spread,
with "a few last words which her hand did trace;
Through the fall OF my tears they can scarce
be read.
y letter it is and commenced to me:
Commenced to me on the day she died;
1''When sovc grows deathless I'll marry thee"
In Paradise Will gain my bride?
Lulu RdQSddIe. in Detroit Free PreG.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-24
Volapuk in TelegraphY.

At the recent international congress
of Volapuksts it was resolved to petit
ton the German Government for the
admission of Volapuk among the Ian
guages that may be used in telegraph
ing. Herr Emma, of Copenhagen in
formed the congress that the Danish
Government had already instructed the
post and telegraph officials to take les
sons in Volapuk. and it was further
more asccrtaned that in Russia Vola-
puk has been for some time among the
languages in which Geographic me
sages may be sent,-M Y. Post. E
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-24
CHANG AND ENG.
The Peculiar Family Life of the Famous
Samese Twins.

Chang and Eng, the Siamese twins,
who were brought to this country by
Captain Coffin, of Newburyport, when
they were boys, afterwards exhibited
themselves, and when they had accumu-
lated some property determined to set
tie down and purchase plantation in
the up-country of North Carolina. There
they induced the two daughters of
clergyman to become their wives. The
double nuptial knot was tied, and as
they could not have separate and dis
tinct establishments, they became heads
of double household. In 1858 they
came to Washington, having become
rather tired of country life, and started
out on tour of exhibition, accompanied
by two of their children. At that time
they had eleven children, six of them
belonging to Mrs. Chang, and the other
five to Mrs, Eng. They had also about
thirty slaves, with good deal of stock.
When at home they attended industri-
ously to the business of their planta-
ton, kept the negroes at work, and
were always ready and willing to pillow.
chop wood and do all sorts of farm
work. Then, when business was not
urgent they would devote their time to
field sports, and were among the keen
est hunters, fowlers and fishers of their
district. The Mesdames Chang and
Eng seconded their lords right we'll in
the management of the concern, and
remained behind to take care of the
household during the absence of their
distinguished consorts. Madame Chang
was said to devote her time to the gem
eral supervision of the slaves and the
direction of the work to be performed
on the plantation; while Madame Eng
charged herself with the care of all the
young masters and misses. instructing
them and the little negro children. A
few years afterwards | saw it stated in
the papers that the two wives had quar-
relied, and another plantation had been
bought, so that each had her individual
home. The duplicate husbands, not
being able to divide themselves, spent
fortnight alternately at each estab-
lishment. PerIey PoOre, IN Boston
Budqet.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-24
THE kAlSER'S TRAIN.
Arrangement of the Special Car Used by
the German Emperor.

Arrangement of the Special Car Used by
the German Emperor.
The imperial special train which has
been used by the Emperor William dur
ing his recent journeys consists of
three saloon carriages, which are con-
nected with each other by a covered
passage lighted with gas, and fitted
with electric bells and telegraph APP
paratus. The day saloon is hung with
blue damask, and contains only easy
chairs, sofas and q couple of tables.
At one end is a coupe, where the EN-
peror usually stands, or sits on high
chair, when passing through large
town, or wherever there is any fine
scenery. A portion of the next car
riage is fitted up as a study, and there
is desk and writing materials; but
his Majesty has almost given up work.
ing in the train, although till last year
he'went through his letters and des-
patches just in the same methodical
way as if he was at Berlin or Potsdam.
A dressing room, which contains every
thing that could possibly be wanted,
adjoins the study. Another saloon is
the bedroom, and contains the camp
bed which the Emperor always uses.
There is large saloon for the servants.
The Emperor's train has been ordered
to travel at a comparatively slow rate
G. speed this year, and nourishing re-
freshment has been supplied to his
Majesty every two Enthusiastically the
strongest soup that can be made, or
eggs beaten up with champagne, or
meat Jelly London Word.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-24
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Money is made twice; man makes
it, and then his wife makes it-go.-
Texas Sit:ingS.
Great possessions may bring great
misfortunes. Some men are punished
by prosperity.
The only banks that don't need
constant watching, these days, are
river banks CharleStOl1n Enterprise
The superiority of man to nature is
continually illustrated. Nature needs
an immense quantity of quilts to make
Il goose with, but man can make q
goose of himself with one United
Presbyterian.
Advice says an old man OF
much experience, "why, / never had
any one come to me for that article
who, before he got through, was not
willing to give me twice as much as he
asked tor.-F'drmer and Manufacturer.
-Circumstantial Evidence. Kate
"Louse dear, there's Grape on the Van
Briskets' front door. Some one must
have diedr' Louise-"Impossible! I'm
positive the doctor hasn't been there
for several weeks. life.
Leader (of little German banO-
"a few pennies, madam, for dot
music" Woman Cat window
"Ain't got nothing for you" Leader
Gndignantly)-"Vat's dot? Ven you
don't give few pennies, We blay some
more. "-Erchange.
Little BoyZ''Pa, what docs 'phe-
nomenar mean?" Father-'It is a
word used by the citizens of Illinois,
Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska when they
refer to the growth of their respective
towns. 1t doesn't mean much. "-Pucb
When we are in the company of
sensible men, we ought to be doubly
cautious of talking too much, lest we
lose two good things-their good opin-
ion and our own improvement, for
what we have to say we know, but
what they have to say we know not.
The young man who takes re-
volver with him to picnic does so to
protect his life from the brigands who
might suddenlyspring out of the woods,
and if it goes off by accident and kills
some of the picknickers he should not
be too severely censured.-Detro1 Free
Press.
-"See here" said the mayor of a
Dakota town to the local correspondent
of St. Paul daily. II notice you sent
your paper dispatch about the new
blacksmith shop recently put in here,
and you don't add: Great enthusiasm
prevails We can't have any more of
that. You want to bear in mind that
great enthusiasm always prevails over
any thing new Dakota. Never forget
to run it in. "-Dak0t1 Bell.
The inventive genius of America
has run rank. A fellow has devised q
machine which will take down man S
words as he talks. Another has gone
him one better and invented an appar-
atus by which man can write in his
own character to n friend or business
connection one hundred miles away.
What we are waiting for is the machine
which will tell wife where her hus-
band really is when he has gone to the
lOdTe,-K1nSuS CitU Times
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-24
The People of Mexico.

A traveller who. has visited the vari-
Gus States and Territories of Mexico,
presents condensed view of his OBJ
servations. Nothing could be more
contentious and epigrammatic than the
style in which the people of the several
States are described. He found in
Yucatan, farmers; Vera Cruz, mer-
chants and travellers; Tabasco, planta-
ton owners; Federal district, politi-
clans and soldiers; Tlaxcala, ignorant
people; Chiapas, Indians; Oaxaca,
fanatics; Durango, muledrivers; Que
retaro, priests; Morelos, fruit farmers;
Guanaiuato, liberals; San Luis Potosi,
wealthy people; Mexico, conservatives;
Tamaulipas, sick people; chihuahua,
savages; Jalisco, potters; Zacatecas,
miners. Nueva Leon, Yankees; Lower
California, adventures; Colima, Ger
mans; Aguascalientes, government
clerks; Sinaloa, fishermen; Guerrero,
negroes; Sonora, horsemen; Coahuila,
poor people; Topic, mountaineers;
Hidalgo, ProteStants and English
N. Y Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

- grape vine of the Mission
v IN Santa Barbara County, Cal,
Il rs ago produced four tons of
q 1t covers an arbor 100 feet
81 nd the trunk is five feet ten
II circumference at the butt. 1t
i be the largest grape vine in
u Boston Budget.
thing of recent manufacture is
thu stable boot BY means of
pa bvice, which in itself is orna-
me he shoe gives with every move
meEJ cisl the foot. 1t is said person
can WIFI perfect ease wear boot of
this description Il half-size smaller than
in thos9of the ordinary kind.
-WYen the Boulder train left the
Santa Cruz depot one afternoon horse
was IL the tunnel. The animal, on
hearing the train approach, ran with
all SPEED along the track. The pas
sengers became interested in the race
betweqn the train and the horse, who
did nek stop running until tunnel No. 6
was watched. The railroad men on the
train Say they never before saw horse
60 Though tunnel in front of a loco
motivF
-S1veral citizens of Milan, Tenn,
sawA tnething in the sky about as high
up Nhe sun about one hour high and
llodb like baby crawling in the air.
nfgk 4 side was yellow stripe tEat
8 like gold. 1t was ia a dark
fsacel about the size of shadow cast
by an|umbrella. 1t went some distance,
then went over Il cloud. When it came
out again there were five or six angels
come out with it. 1t went some dis
lance and then went behind skirt of
woods.
The Egenj'eg San processes to have
found the following typographical
errors in lis contemporaries: Graphic
-Gridiron, for Gladstone. Boston Post
-Petered out, for petrified. Brooklyn
Eagte-Snag fried, for sang froid. Bal
ti,nOre Anerican-The onion of the
States. Jersey city JOurnal-Contract
to erect a $4,000 horse. Harper' S
WeebIy-Some persimmons, for pessi-
mists. Indepsmdent-Spherical devils,
for spiritual devotees. Chicago NewS-
Bob Ingersoll's hellebore, for hyperbole.
The valuable gray mare recently
sold cheap to Westport, Mass, farmer
by the horse railroad company of Fall
River, surprised her former friends by
trotting into the barn in the latter city
yesterday afternoon with tattered
harness hanging to her. The barn en-
ployes tried to drive her out, but she
made for her old stall and threatened
to make things lively for any one seek
ing to dislodge her Nothing has been
heard of the new owner, and whether
the excitable mare made meal on him
or kicked him and his threshing ma
chine into Westport harbor is not yet
ascertained.
Why two pieces of wood sawn from
the same section of tree should possess
very varied characteristics when used
in different positions, a scientific writer
remarks, has often puzzled observers.
For example, gate-post is found to
decay much faster if the butt end of the
tree be uppermost than would be the
case if the top be placed in this posi-
ton, the reason being that the moisture
CT the atmosphere will permeate the
pores of the wood much more rapidly
the way the tree grew than it would in
the opposite direction. Microscopical
examination proves that the pores in
vite the ascent of the moisture, while
they repel its descent.-PIbIic Opinion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-24
Like Poor Fireworks.

MARIA" said Podgkins, who has a
family of grown-up daughters, "our
girls seem like poor fireworks"
Like poor fireworks, JohnP Howp"
"They fail to go of. IN Y Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-24

An ice-making machine has been
placed on the new man-of-war Boston,
the first instance of the kind.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-24

Here is n postscript to girls let
ter, as quoted by London Truth: when
you write next answer me in confidence
two questions: Can you lace your boots
with your corsets on? And can you put
on your bonnet with your bodice one
want to know. N"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-24

"A Tahnudic proverb says that "It's
a good sign that man is capable OF
being ashamed"